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Este artigo pretende apresentar uma discussão sobre a possibilidade de identificarmos as possíveis contri-buições das viagens de descobrimento, enfatizando as navegações portuguesas, para a construção do pensa-mento científico moderno. Por um lado, é analisado o valor da experiência direta valorizada pelos portugue-ses como critério de certeza acerca das afirmações sobre o mundo geográfico que acabaram por colocar em questão a concepção de mundo difundida a partir dos clássicos antigos –os gregos –e, por outro lado, é apresentado uma concepção de ciência moderna que comporta as contribuições dos chamados homens práticos, como os navegadores, cuja atividade marítima promove um debate, no campo da geografia e cartografia sobre a própria constituição do mundo, sem, contudo, romper definitivamente com a tradição cosmológica. A nossa análise é realizada por meio de uma discussão crítica com a historiografia existente.
This article intends to identify the possible contributions of the voyages of discovery, focusing on the Portuguese navigations, to the construction of modern scientific thought. On the one hand, the relevance of direct experience valued by the Portuguese as a criterion of certainty about the claims about the geographic world that ended up calling into question the conception of the world spread from the ancient classics -the Greeks -and, on the other hand, a conception of modern science is presented that includes the contributions of so-called practical men, such as navigators, whose maritime activity promotes a debate, in the field of geography and cartography, about the very constitution of the world, without, however, definitively breaking with tradition cosmological. Our analysis is carried out through a critical discussion with the existing historiography.
This article intends to identify the possible contributions of the voyages of discovery, focusing on the Portuguese navigations, to the construction of modern scientific thought. On the one hand, the relevance of direct experience valued by the Portuguese as a criterion of certainty about the claims about the geographic world that ended up calling into question the conception of the world spread from the ancient classics -the Greeks -and, on the other hand, a conception of modern science is presented that includes the contributions of so-called practical men, such as navigators, whose maritime activity promotes a debate, in the field of geography and cartography, about the very constitution of the world, without, however, definitively breaking with tradition cosmological. Our analysis is carried out through a critical discussion with the existing historiography.
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Viagens de descobrimento Navegações portuguesas Pensamento científico moderno Experiência direta Constituição do mundo Voyages of Discovery Portuguese navigations Modern scientific thought Direct experience Constitution of the world